Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century

by Howard D. Weinbrot

Despite the long history of Menippean satire, from antiquity through the early modern era in Europe and up to the present, the genre often has resisted precise definition and has evoked critical controversy. In this magisterial work, Howard D. Weinbrot offers a new and lucid account of this complex literary category. He argues that in the wake of twentieth-century critics, notably Frye and Bakhtin, Menippean satire has been too broadly associated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801882109
• ISBN13: 9780801882104
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"